Sclerochloa Beauv.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 170

23. Sclerochloa Beauv. 1

Annuals. Leaves flat. Inflorescence a raceme or with few, usually simple, racemose branches near the middle. Spikelets with 3-5 florets, the lower 2-3 fertile and the upper 1-3 male or sterile, disarticulating tardily below each floret or pedicel. Glumes strongly keeled. Lemma with 5-7 prominent, thick veins, strongly keeled, rounded to emarginate, chartaceous, with broad hyaline margin. Palea almost equalling lemma, 2-veined, very strongly 2-keeled, tapering to apex. Anthers slightly exserted at anthesis. Grain 2-5-3 -5 mm including a stylopodium 0-7-1 mm, narrowly triangular-ovoid, more or less trigonous, free, glabrous; hilum punctiform, basal.